Private Painting Class: Palette Knife Acrylic Landscapes

If you’ve ever wanted to loosen up your painting style, create beautiful texture or learn how to turn a landscape into a painting without getting caught up in all the tiny details — this class is for you!In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the wonderfully expressive world of palette knife painting, using acrylics to create your own textured landscape painting to take home.Palette knives are a fantastic tool for painting landscapes. Rather than focusing on every individual leaf, branch or blade of grass, we’ll learn how to simplify what we see into shapes, colours and layers, creating the impression of a landscape through expressive marks and beautiful texture.Throughout the class, I’ll guide you step-by-step through the process, from breaking down our landscape reference and choosing our colours to layering and applying paint with a palette knife.What you will learn️ How to hold and use a palette knife to create different marks and textures️ How to simplify a landscape into manageable shapes and forms️ How to mix natural landscape colours️ Creating skies, clouds, trees, foliage, mountains and other landscape elements with a palette knife️ Using colour and value to create depth and distance️ How to layer acrylic paint and build beautiful texture️ Creating loose, expressive marks without getting caught up in tiny details️ How to bring everything together to create a finished landscape paintingWe’ll experiment with different palette knife techniques before putting everything we’ve learnt into practice to create our final landscape.Never painted before?Perfect!You don’t need any previous painting experience to come along. Everything will be demonstrated step-by-step, and you’ll have plenty of guidance along the way.Palette knife painting is particularly lovely for beginners because there’s no need to worry about creating perfect brushstrokes or making your painting look exactly like the reference. Instead, we’ll focus on colour, shape and texture and learn how a few simple marks can suggest so much!What’s included️ All acrylic paints and painting materials️ Palette knives to use throughout the class️ Step-by-step demonstrations and personal guidance️ Your finished palette knife landscape painting to take homePrefer to paint at home?I can also bring the class to you!Private classes can be held at your home or another suitable location for an additional travel fee. I’ll bring the painting materials and equipment we need, so you can enjoy your lesson from your own space.Mobile classes are available within the surrounding Melbourne area, with travel fees starting from $25 depending on your location.Come along, get a little messy and discover a fun, expressive way to paint landscapes with acrylics and a palette knife!

• Art supplies to use during the class.
• Artworks to take home!

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